This tackle by Tommy was the same as Mike Cooper last night for Warrington lets see if the RFL have the balls to give Cooper 2-3 match ban?????????
Will be classed as reckless, Watts was more or less wrapped up by Ratchford and Hill so Cooper didn't need to add extra impact by moving that top arm/shoulder into the head of Watts.
Suprised Hill didn't stop on the floor for his customary HIA, did he sense Cooper was going to be in trouble and thought I'd better stay on the pitch.
Kudos (through gritted teeth) to Wire for their game management when Castleford came roaring back and Cooper got sent off. They retained the ball, kicked cleverly for Cas to have to do behind-the-posts re-starts and slowed things up through injury checks. It was sly but it worked. Compare and contrast to the Cats-Saints game...
I don't understand why Wire put out such a strong side - and hopefully Cooper gets a decent ban and the disciplinary don't bottle it....
Until I saw the Wire side, I was on the verge of dumping a lot on a Cas win as I thought the sentiment of the occasion (and against what I expected to be half a Wire side) would see them win comfortably. Easy money, I figured. Glad I did a check on the Wire side first.
If anything I reckon Coopers was worse than Makinsons. The tackle was pretty much made, the case bloke was wrapped up and he waded in and threw his shoulder straight into his face. Makinsons happened much faster and was more a case of poor timing and getting it wrong.
I've never understood how exactly previous disciplinary record is factored in to things but I assume tommy grabbing Liam Watts tackle may have counted against him. No doubt that'll be the RFLs excuse when Coopers ban doesn't match.
Yeah Cooper's was a little worse as there was direct contact to the head, with the Makinson one there was no contact to the head at all, just rocked Evalds head back when he hit him
But that has absolutely nothing to do with any ban he gets the criteria will be:
Do Wire have an important knockout game coming up
However the chairman of the disciplinary panel will ensure that nothing is allowed to prejudice the decision, since they will be impartial and have no connections whatsoever with any of the clubs involved, this is to ensure that there is no suggestion of any bias.
Oh sorry this is rugby league not a professionally run organisation, so Cullen will ensure that Wire have no suspensions going into the play offs.
I dread to think what incidents we get cited for tonight.
I don't really think there was much in the Cooper incident, wasn't malicious, contact wasn't that forceful, just lazy in my opinion.
I didn't watch the full match but didn't Oledzki of Leeds do exactly the same to Hardaker, I think, I wonder if he will get the Saints treatment. I doubt it because Rugby League needs a strong Leeds according to everyone in Leeds.
On the Back foot looking for the front one.
Don't they normally release details of the weekend's cases on a Monday afternoon?
Are they trying to agree on the wording of the latest fairy stories, as to why Oledzki and Newman don't warrant bans.
The one for me although irrelevant is that Chris Hill did not get punished for his blatant crusher tackle.
Humans are more concerned with having than being.